Manufacturing doubt: journalists' roles and the construction of ignorance in a scientific controversy

SH Stocking, LW Holstein - Public understanding of science, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
… repertoire of methods to manufacture doubt about science that … claims about scientific
ignorance and uncertainty that actors … social construction of ignorance in scientific controversies. …

The fact of uncertainty, the uncertainty of facts and the cultural resonance of doubt

N Oreskes - … Transactions of the Royal Society A …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… ’ to describe the social construction of ignorance and its study as a … , we discern the construction
of ignorance as a persistent … of money to spread their message of doubt [1–10]. Recently, …

Negative expertise in conditions of manufactured ignorance: epistemic strategies, virtues and skills

J Parviainen, L Lahikainen - Synthese, 2021 - Springer
… and constructed ignorance in … Ignorance is manufactured when certain epistemic
agents have an interest in maintaining uncertainty; thus, they actively work to organise doubt

Dirty secrets: Strategic uses of ignorance and uncertainty

DM Messick - Shared cognition in organizations, 1999 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter discusses some of the tactics that are employed either to conceal information
or to intentionally create a false impression. The strategic decision for sharing or concealing …

Constructing and reconstructing scientific ignorance: Ignorance claims in science and journalism

SH Stocking, LW Holstein - Knowledge, 1993 - journals.sagepub.com
ignorance, we will see that ignorance, too, is multifaceted. Like the spaces around the table,
ignorance … both the creation (or construction) of scientific ignorance and to its dissemination (…

[图书][B] The unknowers: How strategic ignorance rules the world

L McGoey - 2019 - books.google.com
… ‘Doubt is our product,’ tobacco company executives used to say: keep uncertainty … History,
the Academy is actively constructing an untruth – producing ignorance which later furnishes …

Fear, Doubt and Money. War of Ideas, Production of Ignorance and Right-Wing Infrastructures of Knowledge and Hegemony in Poland

AW Nowak - The Political Economy of Eastern Europe 30 years into …, 2022 - Springer
… Below I will show how the merchanting of doubt has become a tool of right-wing domination.
… The “merchanting of doubts”, fear-mongering and the production of ignorance is part of …

Introduction: the growth of ignorance?

M Hobart - An anthropological critique of development, 2002 - taylorfrancis.com
… What is excluded in such confrontations is the existence of doubt. In his essay Vitebsky
considers two ways of dealing with an important phenomenon where doubt and ignorance are …

The pragmatics of ignorance

M Girel - Routledge international handbook of ignorance studies, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
… Peirce claimed that inquiry, a core pragmatist term, started when we had a real and
concrete doubt: “The first condition of learning is to know that we are ignorant. A man begins to …

[图书][B] Ignorance Production and Corporate Science

M Danelon - 2015 - search.proquest.com
… , some contributions to knowledge can effectively cast doubt on others. Thus, it seems that
… Recall my previous discussion of agnotology and constructed ignorance: the ignorance